Three day weekends are like pie. Amazing, fun and far too scarce in the average human being’s life. We can’t promise you we could make a decent pie but we do claim to be really good at knowing what’s happening especially on those wide open days just waiting to be filled with adventure and hootenannies. Cue the Do512 Labor Day Research Squad and their attempts at finding the best ATX happenings to utilize that three day weekend like you never have before.
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Nocturnal Fest: This happens to be a big …
Reflections of neon strip clubs, opiates, nervous breakdowns, live mannequins, digital imagery, the cover of Vogue, and the limits of control, the music of Jimmy Edgar evokes all of these. This Saturday, the Berlin-based Edgar is brings his XXX tour to Austin to kick off the Fall concert line up for the legendary Learning Secrets. Dropped July 26th, Edgar’s latest album, ‘XXX’ is an ongoing storyboard for some epic film in his head about women and men, a compilation of his photographs that takes on a life of …
Labor Day Weekend is sort of the symbolic end of Summer here in the 512. It marks the beginning of Longhorn football and reminds us that Fall is coming. APD is well aware that when we don’t work, we play. So, APD has dubbed Labor Day Weekend a ‘no refusal‘ weekend in the 512; this includes a ‘no refusal’ weekend on Lake Austin for boaters. Be extra careful on the Lake and don’t drink and drive on the roads; you can’t afford it.
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La Grange rappers and brothers, Brandon and LaBaaron Hutchinson, were sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Travis County jury today for shooting into a crowd of people after a rap concert on Red River last year. The brothers are (or should I say were) members of the rap group LG Allstarz. The shooting happened after the brothers Hutchinson were involved in an altercation inside Spiros on May 29, 2009. After the bouncers cleared the club, the Hutchinsons returned and opened fire at a crowd standing near the door. According to …
It’s a triple threat… of sorts heading your way on Friday, September 10th at Bass Concert Hall. Texas Performing Arts and L Style G Style has set up a SPECIAL DOUBLE BILL– Punch Brothers with Chris Thile on the mandolin, and Loudon Wainwright III– to celebrate the best of American acoustic music. With renowned names such as these and the classic style of music to go along with it, there’s no doubt in my mind that this event will draw a large audience. Even if acoustic bluegrass and folk isn’t …
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